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EntityQ667447· pop 33· linked from 986 articles

barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.015666796261657234
Morphology
SB:0a
Coordinates
RA 21.5783° · Dec 34.7541°
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Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
01 26 18.805
Declination
+34 ° 45 ′ 14.93 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4660 km/s
Distance
205.5 Mly (63.00 Mpc )
Type
SB0/a:

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 531 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda with a visual magnitude of 10.51. It is a distance of 65.7 Mpc from the Sun. It is a member of the Hickson Compact Group HCG 10, and is interacting with the other members of the group.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q667447” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.